Lead Data Engineer – Enterprise-Scale Cloud Platform (Hybrid)

Intrepid Experience; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Employee travel discounts

Flexible work arrangements

Learning & development

Job summary

Intrepid Travel is hiring a Lead Data Engineer in Melbourne to shape the data foundations for our analytics, insights, and AI initiatives. This hybrid role blends hands-on technical leadership with strategic business partnering, focusing on modernising data systems and building scalable ingestion, modelling and transformation capabilities.

You will own data platform delivery, foster strong stakeholder relationships, and ensure trusted data foundations for better commercial decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience building enterprise-scale data solutions.
• Experience designing and delivering modern cloud-based data platforms.
• Experience with data lifecycle: ingestion, transformation, analytics, consumption.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build and evolution of Intrepid's enterprise data platform.
• Partner with data teams, architects and senior leaders to modernise legacy data systems.

Skills

SQL

Python

Stakeholder management

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Job description

Intrepid Travel is hiring a Lead Data Engineer in Melbourne to shape the data foundations for our analytics, insights, and AI initiatives. This hybrid role blends hands-on technical leadership with strategic business partnering, focusing on modernising data systems and building scalable ingestion, modelling and transformation capabilities.

You will own data platform delivery, foster strong stakeholder relationships, and ensure trusted data foundations for better commercial decisions.